Kizza Besigye

Kizza Besigye (22 April 1956-) was the leader of the Forum for Democratic Change opposition movement against Yoweri Museveni's government of Uganda.

Biography
Kizza Besigye was born on 22 April 1956 in Rukungiri, Uganda, and he served in the National Resistance Army against Milton Obote's government in the Ugandan Bush War of 1980-1986. Besigye served as Minister of State for Internal Affairs under Yoweri Museveni, and he rose in the ranks of the Uganda People's Defense Force. In the 2001 elections, he was the only viable challenger to the dictator Museveni, and he said that Museveni's re-election was rigged; he was tortured by the police before fleeing to the United States in September and then South Africa. In 2005, he returned home, and he was defeated by Museveni in several elections in the following years. He was opposed to the anti-homosexuality laws of the country, and he led the Forum for Democratic Change against the Museveni dictatorship. On 18 February 2016, while running for President once more, he was arrested and roughed up by police after polls closed, and the next day he was arrested before a planned press conference, with his followers being hit with tear gas. Museveni was re-elected once more, having already ruled for 30 years at that point.